
The New Yorker (August 12, 2024): The latest issue features Charles Addams’s “Ascent” – A fresh printing of an age-old gag.
Funny/Unfunny: The Archival Comedy Issue
Do jokes express our otherwise taboo wishes? Or does everyone just need a pie in the face? By Emma Allen
In Search of the World’s Funniest Joke
The semi-serious science of why we laugh. By Tad Friend
Charlie Chaplin and the Business of Living
Chaplin’s epochal fame has tended to obscure the influences and instincts that infused his art with childlike purity.